captainship

Example Sentences

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“As a general rule, doling out chieftainships across an organization’s upper echelons only serves to undermine and dilute the leadership role.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2019

The country consisted of several petty chieftainships, at constant feud with their Teutonic neighbours, and perpetually waging a border war with Welsh, Picts, and Scots.

From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant

His advice was largely followed by Sir Garnet in the bestowal of the other chieftainships, and was naturally not quite disinterested.

From Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by Haggard, Henry Rider

Popular young men, the bravest of their several tribes, were appointed by Multnomah to fill the vacant chieftainships; and that did much toward allaying the discontent.

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer

Thus the townships of each colony entered into a closer union with one another for military purposes, and so arose the separate chieftainships or petty kingdoms of early England.

From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant